About me
I am interested in community focused storytelling in all its various forms.
I work as a project manager for various arts charities, ranging from writing workshops to short film creation.
As a script editor and dramaturg I have worked on new writing in theatre and large scale immersive productions, as well as screenplays.
I have worked as a Broadcast Assistant on several Audible projects and am really interesting in gaining more experience in studio and development work.
I have written and directed my own plays - often the basis of which comes from verbatim interviews, and am interested in sharing untold stories that many people can tap into.
I have had poetry and short stories published, and also trained with Poet in the City as a Young Producer (cohort 2019). The creation of these events with institutions such as the British Library, lead to my first experiences of curation and the mixing of forms such as poetry and music.
Projects
- COME ON IN LIFE JOURNEYS: Loughborough FarmIn 2019 T.S Eliot prize winning poet and musician Anthony Joseph, and composer Adam Walters met with volunteers from Loughborough Farm in Lambeth. Their interviews have been transformed into song-poems elevating the everyday to the wondrous through their evocative words and music. After COVID disruption of our planned tour, in 2022, StrongBack Productions and Speaking Volumes brought on film director Destinie Paige to re-imagine this collection of song poems.
- COME ON IN LIFE JOURNEYS: Herne Hill Train Station"At heart, ‘Come On In’ is a simple offer – meet some of the people that are part of our community and write songs about them, songs to sing back to that community." - Francesca Beard In 2019 acclaimed poet Francesca Beard, and musician John Hegley met with Sharon and Owen, employees at Herne Hill train station in Lambeth. Their interviews have been transformed into song-poems elevating the everyday to the wondrous through their evocative words and music and quirky sketches. In 2020, StrongBac
- How To Win At Break Ups4 girls. 1 sofa. 1 cardboard cut-out of Tom Hiddleston. A verbatim comedy created from interviews and workshops with young aged 16-25 discussing heartbreak, getting back out there (getting under someone) and how to use tinder like a video game. A touring theatre production, first premiered in November 2017. Awarded the Cymbleine Bursary 2018.
Work history
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Project ManagerStrongBack Productions
London, United KingdomFreelance
I support and assist the artistic director in the efficient management of the organisation in carrying out its stated aims and objectives as a charity. This includes consulting on our future creative direction and projects, editing and sourcing funding bids, maintaining the website and social media. We are currently creating a fundraising drive and friends scheme for supporters and digitalizing our performances this year so they are much more accessible.
Escape Room Operations ManagerMinistry of Stories / Hoxton Monster Supplies
- London, United KingdomFreelance
After a series of workshops with 11-16 year olds to design an escape room - from the characters to the world - we then built the escape room and I hosted a month long free run for 8-12 year olds and their families.
Working with escape room company Modern Fables and with set donated by Punchdrunk, I helped create the space and troubleshoot all the puzzles with the young creators.
A mixture of facilitation and operations management the project crossed art forms to be a wonderful celebration of the work of the young people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ4tRdByq0o
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Skills
- Academic Research
- Playwriting
- Academic Writing
- Comedy Writing
- Collaborative Working
- Copywriting
- Community Management
- Directing
- Script Reader
- Dramaturgy
Education
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BA English and DramaUniversity of Exeter
- Exeter, United Kingdom